Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are asking for people to rummage through their attics and storerooms to see if they have anything which could be of interest to us.

We are asking for one more chance. We are confident we can turn things around.

We are asking for donations for food and clothing, and volunteers to help us sort through the donations,

We are asking for damages. We are also interested in that, but also we are interested in making up for past wrongs.

James Wolfensohn

We are asking for calm, and the opportunity to build a bridge, ... But it's very difficult to build a bridge if only one side is building it.

We are asking each business unit to manage their work flow, which means managers' jobs have been eliminated, not the union positions, and we have eliminated contract work,

Dick Pound

We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight.

We are asking a specific question -- should sex selection play a role in terms of family balancing,

Kenneth Williams

We are asking any evacuees to go shelter farther west of Lufkin. That's putting them out of harm's way, basically.

Kenneth Williams

We are asking any evacuees to go shelter farther west of Lufkin, ... That's putting them out of harm's way, basically.

Oscar Lua

We are always wondering what we are going to get. Guys start asking around, and a lot of guys mess around and start little rumors about what we are getting, and set us up for a disappointment.

We are surprised because previous research indicated that wives of men who worked every hour in the day complained about the quality of their relationship. But as far as I can see no one asked them about their sex lives, and those are surprisingly healthy.

We'd heard rumors all along. We got enough calls from victims' families asking us to look into it that we did.

We didn't know, since she was asking for water, we assumed maybe he was still conscious and maybe still coughing.

We didn't have to ask for a penny of it. The money just came to us.

We are going to do everything we can to make contact with these families. Should we miss anyone, please call our district office at (903) 262-1000 and ask for the student transfer office, ... We will do everything we can to serve the educational needs of these families.

We are going to be careful to lay out a statement that if you get out of line, if there is belligerence in the comments that are being made, you will be asked to leave.

Chuck D.

We had some fans claim that they can get a cheaper rate during the State Fair than during state basketball. (CHSAA) thought the problem had been taken care of; then I went to an outreach meeting with some of the small outlying schools and they asked about it again.

We had some fans ask for it and thought it was a good idea. You do whatever you can to make it a great atmosphere for everybody.

Bruce Bochy

We had our guys up there in the eighth, and you can't ask for more than that. What you're hoping for there is to get the tying or winning run on, and we did both, but they got a very big out. Randa took a pretty good swing, but just got it up in the air.

Steve Smith

We went to our friends' room, our friends who had asked for T-shirts and we set them down on the bed. We made sure not to do any hand-to-hand distribution, because that is a campaign violation. Furthermore, the door to Maxcy is unlocked during the day with people constantly walking in and out.

Chris Duhon

We wanted it in Ben's (Gordon) hands. We went to our go to play. They played it well. We got a good shot and that's all you can ask for.

We wanted him to rebound and score off the break. His role as a sophomore expanded. We asked him to handle the ball, rebound more and play better defense. He handled it OK.

Viviane Reding

We want consumers to ask for lower prices and the companies to offer them.

We want another year before we record an entire CD. Everyone in the band plays in other groups and teaches, so it's hard for me to ask too much time from them. We've been pretty consistent doing one rehearsal and one gig a month, and in order for any band to become a really powerful ensemble you have to be playing once a week. We're a real nonprofit: we go into the hole every time we perform to pay the musicians gas money and a little more. Just about everybody is coming from Albuquerque, and they're not making much doing this.

Tim Conway

We have encountered a situation that wasn't expected in the work plan (for this site). We have asked GE to evaluate it.

We have doors too. They're open, and he's never come across. We have continuously asked our officials to visit us any time, any place. That has been totally ignored.

We have diligently enforced our statute, and we are asking the court to find that we have done so. Then we will ask the court to order companies to pay in full.

Tamsin Greig

We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

Brian Eno

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

Abhishek Bachchan

You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

A. R. Rahman

I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him, and I did so for over a year. I did think of rejoining college, but by then, I was discovering the musician in me. I worked with Illaya Raja and Raj Koti and soon shifted to commercials. This led to movie offers.

Alberto Tomba

Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.